This photo turned out even better than I'd hoped. Not long before this shot the sun was actually in the frame, but with the contrast turned set low everything is exposed well. If I'd had more than half a second to take this picture I would have even tried to bring back up the contrast a bit.Old tram/streetcar in front of an even older windmill in the center in Delft, the Netherlands

Auto ADL?

Active D-lighting? No, I have that turned off, it messes with the colors.

iljitsch wrote:Active D-lighting? No, I have that turned off, it messes with the colors.With the colors? for example?

Olaf Marzocchi wrote:Active D-lighting? No, I have that turned off, it messes with the colors.With the colors? for example?That's the conclusion I reached after getting results like this, where the colors for the JPEG and raw versions of the same photo look different in iPhoto:Left: JPEG, right: raw(I chose this dark after sunset sky background because that's where the difference was always most apparent.)However, I've now come to believe that this is the result of Nikon and Apple using different ways to map the larger color gamut of the camera to the smaller gamut of the computer monitor after I saw this photo:Left: straight from camera (sRGB), right: raw converted with Preview on the MacThis is two photos without active d-lighting where the first one has low contrast through picture control, the second one is standard and the third is with active d-lighting set to maximum (all from JPEGs):It looks like ADL is mostly a reduction in contrast.

iljitsch wrote:Olaf Marzocchi wrote:Active D-lighting? No, I have that turned off, it messes with the colors.With the colors? for example?That's the conclusion I reached after getting results like this, where the colors for the JPEG and raw versions of the same photo look different in iPhoto:Left: JPEG, right: rawHow did you convert the RAW file to JPEG (what software?)?  iPhoto can't read the ADL instruction set so brightness, contrast, tone mapping, and even color may be way off compared to OOC JPEG(I chose this dark after sunset sky background because that's where the difference was always most apparent.)However, I've now come to believe that this is the result of Nikon and Apple using different ways to map the larger color gamut of the camera to the smaller gamut of the computer monitor after I saw this photo:Left: straight from camera (sRGB), right: raw converted with Preview on the MacThis is two photos without active d-lighting where the first one has low contrast through picture control, the second one is standard and the third is with active d-lighting set to maximum (all from JPEGs):It looks like ADL is mostly a reduction in contrast.

I'm sure the dynamic range of the D7100 is great. But the top photo isn't showing a particularly wide dynamic range. The D70s would have done that just fine...

I used iPhoto for the church, Preview for the flower.

iljitsch wrote:I used iPhoto for the church, Preview for the flower.Then you will sometimes get vast differences in you JPEGs from Raw conversion vs OOC JPEG

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